Good point.

www.wweek.com/news/2025/12... #Portland #Oregon

Canadians, man. Say no more.

Whoo. As petty grievances go, this one is a hum-dinger. I mean, God damn anyone who would do this.

Oh, remember the "taco trucks on every corner" panic? That was great, we need more of that.

Another way to say it.

Woh. 6-3 decision against Trump at the Supreme Court. This seems noteworthy.

Every day there's a new Most Nazi-Like Thing These Nazis Have Ever Done winner, and we Americans and our allies fought and defeated the Nazis before, and we will do it again, and damn it feels weird to be talking like a patriot but there ya go. And thanks, allies.

This is how a reporter writes a story. This is all you have to read to understand what happened here.

This is the start of the thread where I found the thing I just reposted about HalluCitations. The whole thread is worth reading.

This is a good idea, it would be good if someone could make this real. Because this is just Garbage In, Garbage Out, Garbage Back In Again on a cosmic scale. LLMs do not deal in facts, we know that, but what they are doing here is poisoning one of the grounds of facticity, namely the ability to 1/2

I mean, boo hoo, unnamed DC D leadership. If any of these "moderate" Ds have some spark of civil servant in them maybe they could breathe on that and start to think that maybe their constituents are onto something about who will win elections next year. And about who needs to get out of the way now.

OK, this doesn't mean there will be no more Jim Beam, they are shutting down one distillery but they have others that will keep going. Still, this is a big hurt to a major economic force.

It's gotta be that he wrote the joke himself and he is convinced that it is funny but there's just something wrong with the way he's telling it and people aren't getting it.

Happy Solstice to all who celebrate.

There are numerous good ones, but this one is my favorite so far. Had to think about it a little bit.

I mean personally I believed this six months ago, a year ago, but what's maybe new is that I believe the truth of this is becoming evident to The Moderates, and we might see some money flowing that way. Maybe I should write to my Congressperson again. And Dem Whip Katherine Clark, also from MA.

Question for the non-USians. I think I know the answer, so don't hold back, you won't hurt my American feelings.

In the top 5, certainly.

Amazon emails me regularly with book recommendations, and today they recommend "Thomas Pynchon and Ted Kaczynski," which "compare<s> and contrast<s> the paranoid conspiracy theories of the noted postmodern author Thomas Pynchon and the serial killer Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber." 1/2

Here in Delaware we have a statue of Thomas Garrett, a white man found guilty of obstructing the recapture of fugitives from slavery – ordered to pay damages to the point of ruin for it. We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.

Chapter and verse showing that the DOJ has violated the law, in case you had any doubt. I think the correct remedy is impeachment.

What do we think, people? "Here to stay" when the VC money runs out?

JFK’s niece: h/t @jamiegangel.bsky.social

More of this, please. Watch the thread.

"Richest man in the world ever" is nowhere on my list of wishes and dreams. Needs ALT-text, doesn’t it? It's a tweet from someone named naiivememe, photo of Elon sitting at a bare table in a sterile office space, text “You are sitting next to Elon Musk, only 3 words, what would you say to him” 1/2

I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.

It's like they decided they need to show that he does not have dementia so they took some transcripts and fed them to probably Grok to write them into a coherent script, and then they made him rehearse the script until they decided he was as ready as he's ever going to be. Just guessing.

Anyone out there able to point toward some resources? Please-and-than-you

"Rule of law" was never part of my working vocabulary until recently, but it seems kind of central to what we're dealing with here. I dunno about Bongino, I don't think he's important to the story, though I'm sure he wants to be.

The idea of Stephen Miller urging someone to exercise kindness is hilarious, in a stomach-turning way. This is a good little anecdote.

"Look at this fucking loser" is becoming my new go-to reposting tag line. Jesus, try to have a little self-respect, guy.

In my little backwater of the Web I had not seen any mention of the Melania movie until I saw this post from Molly, but I have seen this kind of talk about Melania before and if you are OK with it, stop it. Rethink your attitude. In this house we do not punch down on sex workers. I think most 1/2

There is a new challenge for ML researchers: translate Akkadian business records to English, using a database of 8,000 cuneiform texts. I so wish I had stayed in school; what a cool problem with absolutely no commercial potential. www.kaggle.com/competitions...

Not a scientific poll, but this seems to be the early consensus substitute for Firefox now that the Mozilla Foundation has been assimilated into The TESCREAL Collective. No good thing happens there.

I share Kathryn’s grief & anger. 💔 😡 Take a few minutes to watch this, especially the ending. 🫶🏼 (Full video is on TikTok)

If you give multiple interviews to Vanity Fair and don’t know whether or not you are on or off the record - then you are not qualified to be a chief of staff. Speaking as a chief of staff.

look at this fucking loser

Shut the fuck up, Piggy.

Feel-good story of the day.

I just find it hard to believe that someone didn't want this cat. Not practical for me, too far away, but what a beautiful cat. Northeast Maryland (not the town of North East, MD, I don't think).

It's hard to find words strong enough to express how truly vile that Trump post about Rob Reiner is, but Andrew Sullivan comes close here. Needs ALT-text, though, so here goes: Tweet from Andrew Sullivan: Trump’s post about Rob Reiner is something I won’t post here. It’s not 1/3

Aw, man. iRobot files for bankruptcy. www.npr.org/2025/12/15/n...

Editor in Chief of Christianity Today Magazine 👇🏽

This seems like a good point to me.

As with so much that Derek Guy says, I hadn't noticed that before, but yeah you can see the difference, can't you?

I'm surprised that GenAI dot mil uses Gemini and not Grok, which is probably more attuned to Hegseth's morality, but on the other hand these people are hardly what you and I would call smart. Good for whoever took this screenshot and made it available.

Is anybody else surprised that they released him? Are they worried about being cited for contempt of court?

Went out to get the mail this morning, slipped on ice, and fell flat on my face. Literally flat on my face, hit the ice over the asphalt with my nose and forehead. First time in my life I have literally fallen flat on my face, definitely a different experience. I'm OK, thanks, just band-aids is all.